Folding collar



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J. M. VAN HEUSEN FOLDING COLLAR Filed Nov. 16. 1921 R m M V W Patented Jan. 1 1924.

UNITED STATES mvrniwr OFFICE.

JOHN MANNING VAN HEUSEN, OF JAMAICA PLAIN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO VAN HEUSEN' PRODUCTS, I NC., A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

FOLDING COLLAR.

Application filed November 16, 1-921. Serial No. 515,610.

T 0 allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN MANNING VAN HEUsEN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Jamaica Plain, in the county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Collars; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in folding or turn down collars adapted to be worn without starching.

The improved collars of the present invention have either their folding portion or their neck band portion or both of a single piece of fabric coated with a flexible and washable layer of stiffening material integrally combined therewith.

' According to one embodiment of the invention the collar is a built up collar having its fold portion made of a single piece of fabric coated in the manner above mentioned, and having a separate neck band, which may be built up of separate pieces of fabric, to the upper edge of which the folded portion is secured.

According to another embodiment of the invention, both the neck band and the folding portions of a built up collar are made up of single pieces of fabric of the character-mentioned.

According to a still further embodiment of the invention, the collar is a one piece collar having its folding portion coated and stifi'ened in the manner above described and with its-neck band portion either free from coating or likewisecoated, but with a natural fold portion at the upper edge of the folding or turn down portion, at which the collar will naturally fold.

The fabric used in the improved collar construction of the present invention is a relatively heavy fabric, for example, a light weight two-ply fabric, which is considerably heavier than an ordinary single ply fabric, but which may nevertheless be lacking in a desirable degree of stiffness.

Different coating materials may be'used for coating the collar fabric. Coating agents such as cellulosic binding materials may thus be. used whichare insoluble in water and which will adhere to the woven place.

fabric in the form of a flexible and washable stiifening layer. For example, solutions of cellulose derivatives, such as cellulose nitrate in suitable solvents, or solutions of cellulose in cellulose solvents, such as cuprammonium solutions, (01' solutions of viscose, can be used. The coating should be one which will penetrate the fabric to a sufficient degree without however appearing on the opposite side. of the fabric, so that the outside of the fabric will have the ordinary appearance of a woven fabric.

The binding and coating material can be applied in different ways. In the case of a built up collar, the folding portion, for example, can be coated with the cellulosic so-- lution and the edge then turned, for example, in a folding machine, the coating serving in this case to cement the turned edge in y In the case of a one piece collar, with one piece of fabric formingboth the neck band and the foldgportion, the fold portion can be similarly coated, or both the neck band and the fold portion can be similarly coated, except at the fold linewhere increased stiffness is not desired.

After the fabric has been coated, the coating can be modified to convert it into its final form. In the casev of a solution of a cellulose derivative in an organic solvent,

case of solutionsof viscose when'they are used to coat the fabric.

Instead of applying a separate coating material the surface of the fabric itself may be acted upon' by chemicals which will combine therewith to form a surface layer of increasedstifiness.

' The invention will be further described in connection with the accompanying drawin illustrating certain embodiments thereof "m whichv Figure 1 shows in perspective a completed collar embodying the invention.

Figure 2 is a view of the collarbf Figure folded,

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'1 showing the inside of the collar when un-' Figure .3 is a sectional view of the collar of i Figure 1,

Figure 4 1s a sectional view of a modified.

construction.

The, collar of Figures 1, 2 and 3 is a one edge binding may be of varying construction. It may be made in the manner illustrated by vfolding'in the edge of the collar and stitching it. The coating of stifiening material may in this case serve to cement the turned edge of the folding portion of the collar. The amount of the coating may be decreased at the edge of the collar, or a part of the coating may even be forced out from between the thicknesses of the fabric when the edge is turned and pressed in the folding machine.

The collar of Figure 4 is a built up collar having a separate neck band 2 made of two separate pieces of fabric with their edges turned in and stitched together and with the folding'portion secured between them at theupper edge of the neck band. The folding portion 1 is provided with a coating 3 and an edge binding 4 similar to those of Figure 3. a

When the coating material is applied only to the folding portion of the collar, the edge of the coating is made curvilinear as indicated at (S in Figure 2 so that acurvilinear fold line will be provided at the ed e of the stifi'ened portion of the fabric. his fold line will therefore be formed of an unstifi'- ened portion of the fabric so that the collar will naturally fold along this line.

. The completed collars of the present invention are accordingly of a composite character, in that they are made up in part or in whole of single thicknesses of fabric which where exposed to view on the outside present the same appearance as an ordinary fabric collar,.but with the inside of the fabric stifiened by the coating applied thereto which is of such a character that the collar will nevertheless be flexible and washable, but will have an increased l elegree of stiflness more or less comparab c with that of a acre-nee ostarched collar. That is, the coating ma one side, it will be integral, as distinguished from an applied stifiening layer. It will be evident that the invention is applicable to collars of various styles and that difierent fabrics may be used.

I claim: I

1. A folding'or turn-down collar made up of a neckband portion and a folding or turn-down portion, one of said portions having a relatively thick and stifi coatin layer in intimate contact with and firmly a hering tothe threads onthe inner surface of the said portion, the said coating being insoluble in water and serving materially t0. stifien and support the collar, the outer exposed surface of the coated portion of the collar beingunaltered in appearance and untouched by the coating layer.

2. A folding or turn-down collar comprising a neckband portion and a turn-down portion, the said turn-down portion having I a relatively stifl cellulosic coating layer 1n intimate contact with and firmly adhering to the threads on the inner surface of the said turn-down portion, the said cellulosic coatinglayer serving to increase the thickness and stifiness ,of the turn-down portion of the collar, and the outer exposed surface of the turn-down portion being unaltered in appearance and untouched by the cellulosic coating layer. v

3. A collar of the construction defined in claim 1, said collar being made of multiple ply interwoven fabric.

4:. A collar of the construction defined in claim 2, said collar being made of multipleply interwoven fabric. I

In testimony whereof I afix no signature. JUHN MANNING VAN EUSEN. 

